Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET: Multiqueue network device support.

From: "Kok, Auke" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:30:30 -0700

jamal wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-07-06 at 15:06 -0700, Kok, Auke wrote:
> 
>> the contention isn't between multiple tx attempts, but between e1000_clean and 
>> tx. 
> 
> I got you the first time but i think i am missing something:  given that
> the lock is used only on tx - how is that protecting the contention
> between tx and rx?

our rx interrupt/clean can trigger tx cleans, reaching the same code...

Auke